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HPI 17 - Jessica Frazier on Hinduism and Philosophy

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

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The Chandogia: A Metaphor for Consciousness

The Chandogia talks about how consciousness takes on different names and forms, nammarrupa. And that just means you can take matter if you like and shape it, give it different. The clay is insensate, it's unconscious, it's stuff. It's really consciousness that we're all made of," he says.

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